Twitter’s new frontier: World of Warcraft?!
With Twitter catching on around the globe, it’s probably not surprising that it’s starting to turn up in virtual worlds, too. TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft, allowing WoW players to tweet from the game, and even auto-tweet in-game events. Hey, people cover professional sports live on Twitter, so why not WoW, too?
WoW is known for its extremely dedicated players, so TweetCraft is actually a line to the outside world for people who are playing the game full-screen all day. It can automatically tweet when you log on, and automatically post new in-game achievements to Twitter, which is really no different than what FourSquare does when you check in or get a new badge. Even better, you can send screenshots to Twitter using TwitPic. Again, people TwitPic things they see in real life all the time, so an in-game analogue totally makes sense.
